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coding doodads for base install?
Hi! I'm setting up a computer lab for VR dev and I'm wondering what are all of your "can't live without" little apps and freeware tools? We'll be mostly in Unity/VS, on windows. Like, an example might be Notepad++. I'm looking more for developer specific stuff, since I'm not much of a coder and don't know that world well, but anything goes. Would love to hear what you all feel would make a good addition to a base toolset, and what you'd be relieved to see if you were starting day 1 at a new company or taking a class for the first time.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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- Revision tracking, like git or mercurial. Even for single-dev projects. Associated with a visual diff utility like WinMerge.
- ReSharper.
- vs2015 is the must have of the IDE, powerful compiler, powerful debuger ( still easy to use ), as mention, source control is a must have, and the git integration in it works great too, with integrated diff/merge tools and push/pullrequest management.
vs2015 is also better than in the past, and a tools like visual assist or resharper is less of a need.
As a graphic programmer :
* VS2015 contains VSGD, to capture dx11/dx12 frames to replay and debug/profile them.
* RenderDoc, also a tool to capture dx11 frames
* nVidia nSight, again, you never have enough tools in fact to capture frames :)
* a picture editor is useful to create picutre to test features or visualize resources
* a modeler, to visualize and create meshes to test features
* I know use this to edit my shader files and random text files : https://code.visualstudio.com/
* a pdf reader, to be able to read most of the graphics white paper that you will have to find with google - Thanks, very helpful. Yes, a good diff program! good call, had forgotten about that.
We'll be on git for version control, for sure (does anyone still use SVN or is it taking a backseat these days?).
Good looking out on the frame cap stuff. cool.
picture editor - gimp ok or is there another fave?
